[GTALUG] Beginner Debian Question(s)

[Peter King]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 03:15:58PM -0500, Blaise Alleyne wrote:

> On 30/12/15 10:03 AM, Peter King wrote:
> > Now to figure out how to get root, or at least sudo... odd, because
> > while it tells me the default user "linaro" is not in the sudoers group,
> > in /etc/group "linaro" *is* listed as belonging to the sudo group.  Hmmm.
> > 
> 
> Weird. So, if you run `groups` sudo is listed as one of the groups?
> 
> Is the sudo package installed? (`dpkg --list | grep sudo`) Weird that there'd be
> a sudo group set up if the package wasn't installed.

Got it.  There was a missing "%" in the sudoers file, so it wasn't seeing
"sudo" as a group but as a user.  Fixed it, and now I have sudo working.

The last major hurdle is to try to connect to the internet, which is tricky
because I only have wireless access here and the Roseapple Pi seems not to
recognize my wireless dongle -- though again maybe I'm just clueless under
Debian, since the dongle has a RealTek rtl8192 chip, and there are modules
listed for that in /var/modules/: rtlwifi.ko, rtl8192c.ko, and rtl8192.cu.
Loading them via modprobe I do get a note that another USB device has been
registered, but nothing shows up with ip a or with iwconfig, so maybe not.
Or maybe there is some intermediate step I have to take.  Right now I'm
reduced to downloading debian packages by hand, transferring them onto the
SD card, and installing via dpkg -i <package>.deb.  Not too efficient, but
at least I now have iwconfig.  Next up will be lsusb, to see whether the
wireless dongle is recognized or not.

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Department of Philosophy
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